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Sound and Complete.

The algorithm as it is defined is sound and complete in the usual depth-first, backtrack search sense. Clearly the parser may enter an infinite loop (in case non branching rules are defined that may feed themselves or in case a grammar makes a heavy use of empty categories). However, in case the parser does terminate one can be sure that it has found all solutions.



Noord G.J.M. van
1998-09-30